I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The first time someone stood up in front of the fire and told the story while illustrating it with shadows on the… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Theatre's still expensive compared to downloading on Netflix; that has to be addressed. It doesn't mean it has to be over-subsidised by… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I find it very strange when people say that they are trying to solve 'Uncle Vanya' or find a solution for 'Henry… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Often, particularly towards the end of the process, I think of myself less as a theatre director and more as someone who… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I think theatre must be an event, an experience, not compete with cinema. When people are able to download stories on Netflix,… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
